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OHIO. 



8. Religion. The Baptists have 300 ministers ; the Methodists, 400 ; the Presbyterians, 

 100 ; the Cathohcs, 34, and the Episcopahans, 15. There are also Cumberland Prcsbyto 

 rians, Campbellites, Sliakers, Unitarians, &c. 



9. Education. 7'ransylvania University., at Lexington, was established in 1798, and is the 

 oldest in the western country. It has 15 instructers, and 60, or comprising the Medical Col- 

 lege, 300 students. The Centre College, at Danville, was founded in 1822. It has 8 instruc- 

 ters, and 66 students. There is a college at Augusta, founded in 1823; another, called Cum- 

 berland College., at Princeton, founded in 1825 ; and anolher at Georgetown, founded in 1830. 

 At Bardstown, is a Catholic seminary, called St. Joseph''s College., with 15 teachers, and 130 

 pupils. Education is generally in a backward state. Attempts have been recently made to 

 introduce a system of common schools into the State. 



10. History. This State was originally a part of Virginia. The first settler within its 

 limits was the celebrated Daniel Boone, who built a log hut, and established himself here with 

 his family, in 1769. The town of Harrodsburg was lounded in 1774 ; and Lexington, in 

 1776. A separation from Virginia took place in 1792, when Kentucky was admhted into the 

 Union. The present constitution was formed in 1799. 



CHAPTER XXX. OHIO. ' _ 



PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



1. Boundaries and Extent. Oliio is bounded N. by Michigan and Lake Erie ; E. by Penn- 

 sylvania and Virginia ; S. by Vir£:inia, and Kentucky, and W. by Indiana. It extends from 38° 



30' to 42=^ 20' N. latitude, 

 and from 80° 35' to 84° 47' 

 W. longitude. It is about 

 220 miles in length and 

 breadth, and contains 45,000 

 square miles. 



2. Rivers. The Ohio, 

 which gives name to this 

 State, is formed by the con- 

 fluence of the Alleghany and 

 INFonongahela at Pittsburg ; 

 it flows in a very serpentine 

 course, southwesterly into 

 the Mississippi. It is 950 

 miles in length, by its wind- 

 ing;?, though the distance 

 from Pittsburg to its mouth, 

 in a straight line, is only 614. 

 It forms the whole southein 

 limit of this State, and in 

 the lower part of its course 

 divides Kentucky from In- 

 diana and Illinois. From 

 Pittsburg to Cincinnati it is 

 above a third of a mile in 

 width. Below Cumberland 

 River, its average width is 

 above a mile. Its depth va- 

 ries 50 feet, according to 

 the season. The heats of 

 the summer dry up the head 

 streams, and the river de- 

 creases till September, when 

 it is at its lowest stage. At 

 this time it may be forded 

 at the falls near Lquisville. 



